CVE-2020-16969

HIGH

Microsoft Exchange Server - Information Disclosure via OWA Message Token Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how Microsoft Exchange validates tokens when handling certain messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use this to gain further information from a user.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could include specially crafted OWA messages that could be loaded, without warning or filtering, from the attacker-controlled URL. This callback vector provides an information disclosure tactic used in web beacons and other types of tracking systems.</p> <p>The security update corrects the way that Exchange handles these token validations.</p>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0273
EPSS Percentile 84.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

Status published
Products (3)
microsoft/exchange_server 2013 cumulative_update_23
microsoft/exchange_server 2016 cumulative_update_17 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/exchange_server 2019 cumulative_update_6 (2 CPE variants)
Published Oct 16, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026